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1326 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 29,
The yeas and nays were call and appeared ag follows:
AFFIRMATIVE.
Messrs.
Boyer, Snowden, Hoblitzell,
Usilton, Hance, McGlone,
Hodges, Gwynn, Coburn,
Rullman, Cockey, Stewart,
Baldwin, Neal, McAleese,
Whitelock, Purnell, Gill,
Curtis, Naill, Hart,
Dodson, Rutledge, Sanders,
Lankford, Culbreth, Jones,
Gunby, Goldsborough, Rawlings,
Ford, Rusk, Sprigg,
Lambdin, Berkemeier, Waters, of Car'l,
Waters, of Dor., Lewis, Donaldson—41.
Briseoe, McWilliams,
NEGATIVE.
Messrs.
Dunbar, Smith, of Dor., Stott,
Turner, Hinks, Farrow,
Lancaster, Chaisty. Ranger,
Given, Harig, Browniag—13.
Fitzjarrell,
So the motion prevailed,
And the bill was substituted for the unfavorable re-
port/
And was read a first time.
Mr. Naill, from the Committee on Elections, submitted
the following minority
REPORT.
To the Home of Delegates of Maryland:
The undersigned, a minority of the Committee on Elec-
tions, to which was referred the matter of the contested elec-
tions of delegates to this House from the City of Baltimore,
being unable to agree with the majority of this Committee,
either as to the law or the facts involved in this contest, re-
spectfully beg leave to submit this report;
The undersigned have discharged the onerous duties im-
posed upon them to the best of their ability, but under such
great and unusual difficulties, that any short comings should
be attributed not to them, but to the circumstances surround-
ing them.
Some idea of the formidable character of these difficulties
may be had from a brief consideration of the obstacles to a
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